About the Authors

Seth Blumberg

seth.blumberg@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sebastian Funk

Affiliations Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Juliet R. C. Pulliam

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB SF JRCP. Performed the experiments: SB SF. Analyzed the data: SB. Wrote the paper: SB SF JRCP.